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In 2008, I was reluctantly pulled away from here, simply because the eyeballs were mostly on social media. That's where the people and my friends were ( Read more... )

Watching the presidential election is about as much fun as watching two crippled rabid raccoons bite each other to death, isn't it? Does it always have to be this way? Probably. The record isn't encouraging -- when people struggle over power with words in front of a jury it's always been a nasty furball of equal parts absurdity and nastiness, ( Read more... )

I found this totally fascinating:

An Attack That Came Out of the Ether

It's on the Washington Post, which may require free registration.

It's such a perverse thrill to stumble across that rare treat when someone of a philosophical bent I often disagree with comes out and offers a reasoned defense of something that you know all along that the members of his tribe believe deep down but which is usually too embarrassing or unpopular to say out loud ( Read more... )

I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough ( Read more... )

(And I feel perfectly fine ( Read more... )

I came up to work this week determined to try my best to escape the closing-up process that seems to happen every time I sit in front of a computer screen and do whatever it is that I do. Or failing that (as was likely) to at least start to understand it ( Read more... )

I sit here in the semidarkness of the 20th of April typing on battery power while a slow-moving thunderstorm cracks and booms around me, every pop and roar a not-so-gentle reminder that life is fleeting and could wink out at any moment. I know this, and it's all right. I'm feeling mellow and content and happy, slowly finishing off the last third ( Read more... )

I think I'm beginning to master this No Expectations thing. I never thought I would; in fact, a couple of years ago I'd never heard of the idea. At that point you could've called me a master of Expectations. Anytime something new was on the horizon I'd spend as much time as I had to wait trying to imagine -- usually in detail -- what it would be ( Read more... )